More English Fairy Tales, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 13
But the tale as is told is clearly not sufficiently motivated.
What happens: tell, not be · To what, where: tale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 motivated | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tale | det |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 motivated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 told | mark |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux:pass |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tale | acl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 motivated | cop |
| 8 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 11 motivated | advmod |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 motivated | advmod |
| 10 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 11 motivated | advmod |
| 11 | motivated | motivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 motivated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | the tale not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | not is | present · passive | the tale | clearly, motivate, sufficiently property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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